WHEREAS, June 30, 2006 marks the centennial of the enactment of the Federal Pure Food and Drug Law and the creation of the Federal Food and Drug Administration; and

        WHEREAS, throughout the past one hundred years, the food and drug industry, consumers and the scientific community, with the guidance of the Federal Food and Drug Administration, have played an important role in the development of higher food, drug, cosmetic and medical devices standards which provide assurance to the American people that such products are safe, pure and properly labeled; and

        WHEREAS, a number of commemorative events will be sponsored during 2006 by various organizations of state, local, and federal officials; and

        WHEREAS, today’s state and local food, drug, medical device and cosmetic laws and their proper administration are of vital importance to the health and well being of the people of the United States and of the State of Idaho;

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, DIRK KEMPTHORNE, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim the month of June 2006 to be

FOOD  AND  DRUG  LAW  CENTENNIAL  ANNIVERSARY  MONTH

in Idaho.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at the Capitol in Boise on this seventeenth day of January in the year of our Lord two-thousand and six and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirtieth and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred sixteenth.

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE